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Stefan Cosma is a young photographer who lives in Romania and Germany and eloquently speaks the global language of his generation. The snapshots he takes –details from his daily life, of funny exploits on his wanderings in Europe and North America – compare corners in his native land to other corners elsewhere. Nonchalant, westernized, cosmopolitan, subcultural, his message could be: "We ?re the same everywhere, even the details." Snapshots from "A Day in Bucharest" (1999 )can be identical to snapshots from "A Day in N. Y." and "Interiors from Colentina", a district on the out-skirts of Bucharest, could be "Interiors from the Bronx."
Cosma operates (or points to) a kind of "de-personalization" of cities, with an eye for the uncanny detail, for social "nuances", for bizarre associations of meanings. The result is a dialogue between fashionable / trendy / cosmopolitan / sophisticated behavior patterns and collective / mass-subcultural / tribal-like ones. Cosma is international, although amused to be a native Romanian.
- Ruxandra Balaci -
Nominated by Ruxandra Balaci, critic, curator, head of the Contemporary Art Department at the National Romanian Museum of Art, Bucharest.
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